smorzando
adjective
smor·zan·do
smȯrtˈsän(ˌ)dō
variants or less commonly smorzato
-ä(ˌ)dō
: growing slower and softer : dying away —abbreviation smorz —used as a direction in music
Word History
Etymology
smorzando from Italian, verbal of smorzare to tone down, reduce, alteration (influenced by s-, from Latin ex-) of ammorzare to moderate, weaken, extinguish, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin admortiare to extinguish, from Latin ad- + (assumed) Vulgar Latin -mortiare (from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori to die); smorzato from Italian, past participle of smorzare
- parallel sphere
- parallel stance
- parallel standard
- parallel sulcus
- parallel texture
- parallel turn
- parallel vise
- parallel winding
- parallel-resonant
- parallel-veined
- paralleled
- parallelepiped
- parallelepipeda
- parallelepipedons
- parallelepipeds
- paralleling
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- parallelised
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- parallelising
- parallelism
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- parallelist